Quote from: [cancerblack] on Jan 22, 2022, 08:46:15 AM
The thing is, it wasn't horrible or a mess, if you've seen even just the first one. You may have been filtered though.
I've seen the original three, I even rewatched them in 4K fairly recently before the new one came out. I even like the second and third one.
But the 4th one felt very low-budget in comparison, especially when it resorted to 90s TV movie "slow-mo" blur effects. The action lacked stakes, scope, and scale, Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss seemed bored to be there, the "Agent Smith" thing was pointless and went nowhere (and was especially egregious given how well it was settled in the third movie, Smith absolutely did not need to come back in a sequel).
The meta references very nearly ruined the movie for me, and gone were the philosophical ideas present in the first three movies. The meta stuff didn't even make sense - it was showing scenes directly from the first movie, and playing it off as being "from Neo's video game" or something... except it was showing scenes Neo wasn't present for in the first movie (the opening scene with Trinity fighting the cops, for example) and would have no knowledge of, let alone be able to recreate exactly the way it happened in the first movie. Likewise, when it was showing actual honest to god footage from the first movie, how would Neo think to recreate footage *exactly* the way the
audience saw it in the movie. It was incredibly lazy.
If you (or others) enjoyed the movie, then that's awesome. I'm not one to undermine another person's enjoyment. I *wanted* to like this movie, I was super hyped for another Matrix movies and the possibilities it could offer. What we got just totally fell flat for me.
